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NASA Technology Projects

Search NASA's TechPort inventory — every technology R&D project the agency has tracked, active and completed. Harvested gradually in the background (TechPort only exposes one project per API call, ~21,000 total), so the list grows over time rather than all at once.

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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 176 of 422.

Title Status TRL Technology area Lead organization
Crystallization studies of zblan glass in an electrostatic levitator Completed 2 Electromagnetic Wave–Based Sensors Marshall Space Flight Center
Utilizing Bosch Generated Carbon for Additive Manufacturing Completed 3 In Situ Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Repair Marshall Space Flight Center
Development of High Efficiency Thermoelectric Devices for In-Space Propulsion Completed 4 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Marshall Space Flight Center
Phase-Occulted Visible Nulling Coronagraph Completed 3 — Goddard Space Flight Center
Divert Architectures and Guidance, Navigation, and Control to Enable Pinpoint Landing for Planetary Exploration Completed 3 Flight Mechanics and GN&C for Entry, Descent, and Safe Precise Landing Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
AMES SWIR Camera (SWIRcam): A Spin-Off Of The Ames Imaging Module (AIM) Completed 5 — Ames Research Center
Heat Transfer Enhancement and Thermal Management for Space Applications Employing Femtosecond Laser Processed Metallic Surfaces with Micro/Nanostructures Completed 3 Heat Transport University of Nebraska-Lincoln
A Parallel Boltzmann Simulation for Multi-grid Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Completed 3 Dynamic Energy Conversion University of Maryland-College Park
Novel Solid Electrolyte for Safe and High-Capacity Battery with Internal Thermal Management Capability Completed 3 Electrochemical Storage: Batteries Glenn Research Center
Systemic Autonomy for Robotic Explorers Completed 3 Mission Planning and Scheduling Carnegie Mellon University
Rocket Fuel Synthesis by Fisher-Tropsch Process Completed 2 — Johnson Space Center
Disruptive Filter Technology for Spacecraft Water Treatment: The New Promise of Graphene Year 1 of 2 Completed 3 Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems Johnson Space Center
Design and Analysis of a Practical Heliogyro Blade Control System for Deployment and Flight Completed 3 Solar Sails University of Colorado Boulder
Nanocoatings for Wicking of Low Viscosity Cryogens, Year 2 Completed 3 — Kennedy Space Center
CubeSat with Nanostructured Sensing Instrumentation for Planetary Exploration Completed 2 TPS Testing University of Southern California
Organic Magnetic Aerogels (OMA) for Use as Lightweight EM Shields and in Wireless Power Transmission Completed 3 — Glenn Research Center
Doppler FOSS Validation on X-56A Wing Completed 3 Flight Vehicle Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Space Object Shape Characterization Using Light Magnitude Measurements From Multiple Observers Completed 3 Orbital Debris Characterization SUNY Buffalo State
High Performance Oxidation Resistant Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells for Mars ISRU Completed 3 Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables Glenn Research Center
Leveraging Van der Waals forces to produce BNNT fibers Active 2 Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Tailored Coatings for Thermal Protection System (TPS) Peak Radiative Heating Completed — Thermal Protection Materials Ames Research Center
Next-Generation Electronic Systems for Innovative New Space Technologies and for the Nation’s Science, Exploration and Economic Future Completed 3 Special Materials University of Maryland-College Park
Simulating the Operational Local Volume for Electrospray ion Thrusters (SOLVEiT) Completed 4 Electrostatic Propulsion Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Waveguide Augmented Radiometric System (WARS) Completed 3 Thermal Management Systems Armstrong Flight Research Center
Collective Robotic Assembly of Discrete Lattice Elements (CRADLE) Completed 4 Microgravity Construction and Assembly Ames Research Center
Gradient Field Imploding Liner Fusion Propulsion System Completed 3 Solar Thermal Propulsion Marshall Space Flight Center
Optics and Optical Coupling for Future CMB Missions Completed 3 Optical Components University of Chicago
Cryogenic Selective Surfaces Completed 3 In-Space Propellant Storage and Use Kennedy Space Center
Regenerative Ammonia Recovery from ISS Wastewater to facilitate Plant Growth, Year 1 Completed 3 Water Recovery and Management Kennedy Space Center
Focal Plane Development for the Transition-Edge EBIT Microcalorimeter Spectrometer Completed 3 Detectors and Focal Planes University of Maryland-College Park
Experimental Evaluation of Geopolymer and 'Lunamer' Binders as Radioactive Shielding Materials for Space Applications Project Completed 2 — Stennis Space Center
High Reflectance Silicon Dielectric Mirrors for Infrared Astronomy Completed 7 Optical Components Goddard Space Flight Center
Pulsed Plasma Rocket: Shielded, Fast Transits for Humans to Mars Completed 2 Solar Thermal Propulsion Howe Industries, LLC
Shape-Morphing Adaptive Radiator Technology, Year 2 (SMART) Completed 3 Heat Rejection and Storage Johnson Space Center
Evaluation of Carbon Composite Vessels Fabrication using Ionic Liquid Epoxies for Cryogenic Liquid Containment Completed 5 — Marshall Space Flight Center
Dynamics and Design of Open, Self-Regulating, Capillary Flow Networks for Space Micropropulsion Applications Completed 3 Electrostatic Propulsion California Institute of Technology
Developing an Adaptive Robotic Assistant for Close-Proximity Human-Robot Interaction in Space Environments Completed 3 Human and Robot Interaction Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Development of Spike Ejector Technology Completed 5 Propulsion, Exhaust, and Propellant Management Stennis Space Center
Enhancing Thermal Transport Properties of Nanocomposites Completed 3 Lightweight Structural Materials Vanderbilt University
Parachute Canopy Instrumentation Platform, Year 1 (PCIP) Completed 6 Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL Johnson Space Center
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravitational Lens Mission Completed 4 Other Sensors and Instruments Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rapid and Simple Sample Acquisition During Space Flight: Simultaneous Extraction of Proteins and Nucleic Acids from Bodily Fluids and Cabin Water Using Free-Flow Bi-directional Isotachophoresis Completed 3 Sample Acquisition and Handling Texas A & M University-College Station
A Numerical Method to Generate Reference Trajectories for Optimization Methods to Support Low-Thrust Mission Design Completed 3 Trajectory Design and Analysis Purdue University-Main Campus
High-Rate, Large-Area Deposition of Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Energy Technologies Active 2 Electrical Power Conversion and Regulation The University of Texas at Austin
New Approaches in III-Nitride-Based Devices for Next-Generation Planetary and Astrophysics Missions Completed 3 — Jet Propulsion Laboratory
TechEdSat Completed 7 — Ames Research Center
Nonprehensile Terrain Manipulation for Planetary Rover Mobility Enhancement Completed 3 Surface Mobility Carnegie Mellon University
Broadband Electrically Tunable Monolithic Mid-Infrared Laser Completed 4 Environment Sensors Northwestern University
Robust Planning for Dynamic Tensegrity Structures Completed 3 Surface Mobility Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Conductivity of AM Lunar Regolith Components via Graphene Nanoplatelets Completed 3 In Situ Resource Use —
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ℹ️ About this data
  • Sourced from NASA TechPort, NASA's public technology-project inventory. Harvested gradually into our own database — TechPort's API only returns one project's full detail per call, so ~21,000 projects take a while to cover.
  • TRL (Technology Readiness Level) is NASA's 1-9 scale for how mature a technology is: 1-3 is basic research/concept, 4-6 is lab/relevant-environment validation, 7-9 is flight-proven. Lower TRL generally means more room for outside research contribution; higher TRL means something closer to a finished, licensable technology.
  • "Active" vs "Completed" reflects TechPort's own project status, not funding availability — see the insights page for how to actually act on this.
💻 Show API usage example (cURL) 
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/nasa-tech-projects/api?q=laser&status=Active&sort=trl&page=1"

Returns {"rows": [...], "total", "page", "pages"}, or {"error": "..."} if temporarily unavailable. All query params are optional.